ITV2’s The Vampire Diaries is the latest bloodsucking teen drama to hit television, with True Blood due to make a returnFirst they were crooked and yellowing. Then they gleamed bright white and perfectly straight. And now television seems to like its teeth sharp, pointy and with a photogenic drip of blood. Vampires are out in [...]
Internet show aimed at 10 to 15-year-olds takes on BBCHow many people would put money on an untapped thirst for serious news and current affairs among young teens? Two new media ventures are doing just that – while also touching on sensitive issues of editorial judgment.The newspaper First News is planning to take on the [...]
Less than a week old, it has generated reams of copy and already changed the way Amazon deals with book publishers. Guardian writers consider what the iPad means for different sectors of the media industrySearch for “Steve Jobs iPad” and Google will offer you “about 86,000,000″ results for the past year. Print those pages out [...]
Britain’s Greatest Machines | Tower Block of Commons | The Good Wife | The Richard Dimbleby LectureBritain’s Greatest Machines9pm, National GeographicFormer Red Dwarf star Chris Barrie returns for a second series of this in-depth yet cheerful look at some of the major engineering leaps of the past century. This episode is about triumph and tragedy, [...]
Jazz FM’s new show tries to corner the market where jazz and high finance overcross – and it’s about as appropriate as that soundsAre business people especially into jazz? You would assume so from Jazz in the City (Jazz FM, yesterday), a new interview show featuring leading figures from the finance world and their choice [...]
Crozier is the latest broadcasting boss who made his name in advertising or marketingThe US drama Mad Men has made celebrities of a fictional group of advertising men, but on this side of the Atlantic real-life ad execs are emerging as the TV industry’s off-screen stars. The appointment of Adam Crozier, the former [...]
Peter Tatchell welcomes the BBC’s belated initiative to examine coverage on TV radio and websitesThe BBC decision to commission research into its portrayal of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people is a welcome, if somewhat belated, initiative. It comes in response to two decades of sustained – and often ignored – criticism of the BBC [...]
Julie Walters as a dying Mo Mowlam could have brought peace to Ireland in an instantAt first, it was hard to get beyond the fact that Julie Walters doesn’t look anything like Mo Mowlam. It’s not just that there is very little physical resemblance; the problem is that we were in 1996 or thereabouts (big [...]
It’s no Simon Cowell-leaving-Idol news…
Is American Idol really on its way out? This…